Thanks for this, just realised i never switched the BIOS on my Sapphire Nitro+ 64, from your reckoning they ship with the lower power bios enabled, so im going to switch mine up and see what happens
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Thanks for this, just realised i never switched the BIOS on my Sapphire Nitro+ 64, from your reckoning they ship with the lower power bios enabled, so im going to switch mine up and see what happens
Thanks for this, just realised i never switched the BIOS on my Sapphire Nitro+ 64, from your reckoning they ship with the lower power bios enabled, so im going to switch mine up and see what happens
I believe that both bios use the same default clock and memory speed for the card. Moving the bios switch to position 2 will give you a higher board power limit to 240 watts and therefore maybe a better performance.
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Right, me sapphire V64 turned up about an hour ago, got it installed (having run driver cleaner first to clear anything Nvidia) booted up, installed what I thought was a set of older drivers, turned out they were the latest. So far at stock everything is fine, good performance bump in heaven benchie, very quiet with no hint of coil whine. I had gpz running at the same time as heaven and noticed theres quite a bit "gpu speed" fluctuating. It goes as high as 1530 and can momentarily dip to 1480ish, but temps are around 70c
Now starts your torment of getting a really good stable Undervolt and Overclock
little tip though, core clock performance is not as good as HBM performance, id personally put more focus on to getting the best HBM Clock and undervolt as possible as this is where your largest gains come from.
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start with undervolting, try 1080 on the p7 and 1050 on the p6 and go from there. that will bring your temps down (also set a custom fan curve if on the latest drivers and at the same time set the slider to +50% power).
Mine got.
Awful pic alert (I had a lamp shining on it)
I cobbled the rig together so I have a spare rig for my mother's house. Works nice, very quiet too. I just left Valley running for an hour and it topped out at 64c. I didn't hear the fans spin up once (they won't until it hits 70)
So yeah, very happy indeed
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Right, been playing for a while with wattman and Heaven benchie and monitoring with gpu-z. Now I'm at 1050-P6 and 1080-P7, power slider 50% and fans in auto. While running heaven the gpu clock is roughly 1560mhz average (drops a bit then rises a bit) and I haven't touched the HBM speed yet. Now I'm using gpu-z version 2.8.0 which shows GPU temp and GPU hotspot. The hotspot is 77c-78c (although I have seen it at 90c believe it or not) with the gpu temp hovering around 64c, and the fans are going berserk at 2100 ish rpm. My question is, should I not worry so much about the gpu hotspot temp and mainly be concerned with the normal gpu temp?
the reason I ask is I'd be able to lower the fan speed manually and quieten them down a bit.
the reason I ask is I'd be able to lower the fan speed manually and quieten them down a bit.
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Have a GIGABYTE RADEON RX VEGA 64 WINDFORCE OC 8GB arriving on Monday and pairing with a 2700x.
Been reading and trying to get a grip on this thread, but does anyone have any advice to get it running its best?
Will mainly he playing PUBG at 1440p on a 144hz Freesync monitor
Been reading and trying to get a grip on this thread, but does anyone have any advice to get it running its best?
Will mainly he playing PUBG at 1440p on a 144hz Freesync monitor
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Yep copy the settings on the previous page and you're good
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no issues with that hotspot temp looks around normal
my reference gets to 88 max so your fine, some people have had success with re-pasting etc, but ive seen people under water with just as high hotspot temps, i reckon AMD did a similar thing to what they did on ryzen and put a temp in there thats 10-20 degrees higher for fan curves etc, but ive no proof to back that up, just a hunch.
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Hi Everyone. Hmm, so I ordered parts for a new build today and went for a Gigabyte Vega 64 as the price seemed great, and the one review I looked at online seemed good. I was in a rush and don't usually make decisions this quickly but looking through this thread now it doesn't seem to be the most loved of cards... Have I made a terrible mistake? I don't really want to pay lots extra, but maybe I would have been better off going for a PowerColor 56 or something like that?
If run out the box, they suffer with quite a bit of heatsoak on the pcb due to the design of the cooler, this heat then transfers into the case. Generally with a good undervolt and a well tuned fan curve, it'll be as good as the rest of them. I have 3 vegas, and my gigabyte v56 is surprisingly quiet and clocks very well. I'd take the gigabyte over the Asus any day.
Cheers. I must admit I'm not usually one for fiddling around with settings, but I'll give it a try when I get it.
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Yes. You can reduce the PL to 30% if you want more power savings.
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Epic thank you, looking forward to getting my new bits next week! I’m sure I’ll be back with lots more questions!
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Epic thank you, looking forward to getting my new bits next week! I’m sure I’ll be back with lots more questions!
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Cheers Kaap !
Having spent a couple of days with this now? I love it. I mean obviously it doesn't have the balls my Titan XP does, but it is plenty fast enough for the games I wanted to play on it and it's easily the quietest air card I've ever had. With the bottom intake now working (I had to connect up the fan) is is very quiet. The fans only really spin up at 73c (my profile in AB) and they have only done so once for about ten seconds (the opening sequence to BLOPS IV). In FO76 it's not gone above about 65c.
Very happy. It will make a mint upgrade over my Fury X.
Having spent a couple of days with this now? I love it. I mean obviously it doesn't have the balls my Titan XP does, but it is plenty fast enough for the games I wanted to play on it and it's easily the quietest air card I've ever had. With the bottom intake now working (I had to connect up the fan) is is very quiet. The fans only really spin up at 73c (my profile in AB) and they have only done so once for about ten seconds (the opening sequence to BLOPS IV). In FO76 it's not gone above about 65c.
Very happy. It will make a mint upgrade over my Fury X.
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I didn't spend a few hours last night deep diving this thread, honest.... Hi everyone!